Explain it in 60 Seconds: Lattice QCD

Shielding

DUSEL: Big plans for deep science

When the Homestake mine closed in 2003 after producing 42 million ounces of gold, it left a colorful gold rush history, tall steel headframes looming over a town of 3000 people, and an enormous hole in the ground: North America's largest and deepest underground mine.

EXO takes clean to an extreme

Some particle physics experiments require an extraordinary degree of cleanliness and quiet. How far will they go to achieve this?

Gran Sasso: A tale of physics in the mountains

In an epic story of fairy-tale beauty and world-leading science, human courage and determination confront adversity and Gran Sasso laboratory comes forth to see the stars once more.

Bringing dark life to light

The stunning realization that up to half of life on Earth may exist underground has transformed biologists’ thinking about the origin and evolution of life here and on other planets. The search for "dark life" could go to new depths at a proposed underground laboratory.

Soudan Lab

Just before 7:30 on a bitter-cold morning in northern Minnesota, engineer Jim Beaty begins the last leg of his daily commute. He steps into a dark brown metal box with five coworkers. Someone slides the door closed.

Hundreds splash through an artist's neutrino tunnel

French artist Nelly Ben Hayoun is no stranger to science.

Underground, good stories are found

Prior to 2002, very few nonscientists knew that Sudbury Neutrino Observatory laboratory, or SNOLAB, existed.